Melians makt och kontroll över ämnet av Arda:
För det första, lite bakgrund på Melian och hennes krafter som Maia, liksom hennes utveckling i Arda. Nedifrån ser vi att hon tjänade Vána och Estë, som hade makt över flora och fauna och att läka alla sår. Hon var också skicklig i förtrollande låtar och hade en kraft över jämn Valaren:
Melian was the name of a Maia who served both Vána and Estë; she dwelt long in Lórien, tending the trees that flower in the gardens of Irmo [...] nor more wise, nor more skilled in songs of enchantment. It is told that the Valar would leave their works, and the birds of Valinor their mirth, that the bells of Valmar were silent and the fountains ceased to flow, when at the mingling of the lights Melian sang in Lórien.
For Melian was of the divine race of the Valar, and she was a Maia of great power and wisdom; but for love of Elwë Singollo she took upon herself the form of the Elder Children of Ilúvatar, and in that union she became bound by the chain and trammels of the flesh of Arda. In that form... she gained a power over the substance of Arda.
The Silmarillion: Of Beleriand and it's Realms
Vi ser att över tiden fick hon stor kontroll över sina krafter.
Fällor och fästen av bältet, hur det hindrade inkräktare:
Observera att det enda sanna kontot vi har av någon som hindras i bandet är Túrin.
För det andra varierade bältet med plats. Med tanke på att majoriteten av Doriath var omgiven av skog (se botten) skulle de "banlösa träd" sannolikt ha omringat Doriath, men vissa områden beskrevs som "inslagna i munar".
In the south-west of Doriath, where Aros flowed into Sirion, lay great pools and marshes on either side of the river, which halted there in his course and strayed in many channels. That region was named Aelin-uial, the Twilight Meres, for they were wrapped in mists, and the enchantment of Doriath lay over them.
The Silmarillion: Of Beleriand and it's Realmsat last, weary and haggard, they reached the confines of Doriath. But there they became bewildered, and were enmeshed in the mazes of the Queen, and wandered lost amid the pathless trees, until all their food was spent. There they came near to death...
The Children of Húrin: The Departure of Túrin
Det här extraktet från barnen av Húrin, föreslår att bandet var obevekligt och sannolikt dödade olika människor från svält, med att Turin bara blivit rädd av Beleg Strongbow.
Det finns också "Mars-Wardens", men initialt beskrivs som "jägare" när Túrin blir ålder, han går med dem. Ingen marsch-wardens heter bar de i norr, men Morgoths Orcs var mest sannolika att attackera från norr.
And soon after he put on the Dragon-helm, and took arms, and went away to the north-marches, and was joined to the elven-warriors who there waged unceasing war upon the Orcs and all servants and creatures of Morgoth.
The Children of Húrin: The Departure of TúrinOne only was mightier in arms among the march-wardens of Thingol The Children of Húrin: The Departure of Túrin
Jag kunde inte hitta någon beskrivning av storleken på "ringen" eller vad den omfattade.
Alla tillåtna att komma in kunde lämna efter deras vilja:
The Girdle of Melian does not hinder the going of those that passed in with our leave.
The Children of Húrin: The Departure of Túrin
Winged fiender:
Det enda som nämnts av flyktiga varelser som flyger uttryckligen angivna flygande nära Doriath är Manwé's Eagles. Dock stannar de vid gränserna. Oavsett om detta beror på att de har bestämt att de har flugit tillräckligt långt eller helt enkelt inte kan ange är okänd.
“And at the last the eagles set them down upon the borders of Doriath;”
The Silmarillion: Of Beleriand and it's Realms
Geografi av Doriath:
Doriath was a realm of forests about the great river Sirion, with in it the forests Neldoreth (also Taur-na-Neldor, the northern beech forest), Nivrim (also West-march, an oak forest), and Region.
Tolkien Gateway: DoriathSouthward lay the guarded woods of Doriath, abode of Thingol the Hidden King, into whose realm none passed save by his will. Its northern and lesser part, the Forest of Neldoreth, was bounded east and south by the dark river Esgalduin, which bent westward in the midst of the land; and between Aros and Esgalduin lay the denser and greater woods of Region. Upon the southern bank of Esgalduin, where it turned westward towards Sirion, were the Caves of Menegroth; and all [All] Doriath lay east of Sirion save for a narrow region of woodland between the meeting of Teiglin and Sirion and the Meres of Twilight. By the people of Doriath this wood was called Nivrim, the West March; great oak-trees grew there, and it also was encompassed within the Girdle of Melian, that so some portion of Sirion which she loved in reverence of Ulmo should be wholly under the power of Thingol.
The Silmarillion: Of Beleriand and it's Realms
En karta över Doriath är bifogad nedan (om någon kan hjälpa till att identifiera källan som skulle vara bra, men det ser ut som något Tolkien kan ha ritat):
